To which we wild and zany minions of TVWriter™ can only add, “Doh!”
They needed a study to figure out this?
Month: January 2015
LB: More Interweb Stuff I’m Lovin’ On
by Larry Brody
A clever guy named Josh, who lives in L.A. trying to establish himself as a stand-up, has a very successful blog in which he comments on the day’s comic strips. I really enjoyed this one the other day:
John Ostrander: Close to Home
by John Ostrander
Shock. Outrage. Fear. These were my immediate reactions to the terrorist attack on the offices of the French satiric magazine, Charlie Hebdo, last Wednesday. This one strikes close to home, despite being in France. The main targets – and victims – were an editor and several artists at Charlie Hebdo and the reason given were Muslim outrage at caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, a big no-no in Islam. The magazine, the artists, were exercising their freedom of expression, their opinion, and it supposedly offended some radical Muslims.
I don’t think that’s what is really going on. I think that’s the excuse.
There is a purpose to terrorism over and above the act itself, over and above the shock and horror of the violence. The site Terrorism Research says “Terrorism is designed to produce an overreaction and anecdotally, it succeeds at that almost all the time.” The ultimate target of the terrorists are not the initial victims but the general public.
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Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise #13
Entry 13 – The Ins and Outs of the Animatic Short
by Daymond C. Roman
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
As I stressed last week, having a strong online presence is important. However, we didn’t want to limit ourselves to a website and social media. Meaning, backstory, concept art, and personnel bios are great, but we also wanted to provide our audience with actual content. But what? A one shot comic? A collection of character and location sketches with captions? A trailer/teaser of some sort? In the end, we decided to merge all of those ideas into one, an Animatic Short.
Last year, I took an audio production class at El Paso Community College. For our final project, we had to produce and audio program on any subject we chose. Naturally, I wanted to make a Cargo 3120 audio show! Aaron was just as excited about the prospect of (at least) hearing the world that we were working so hard on.